Francis Gary Powers, U‐2 Pilot, I,. Dies in a California Copter Crash (Published 1977)

"His re‐entry to life in America, he said, was made more difficult because some Americans believed he had been guilty of cowardice in not committing suicide after his plane was shot down."

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1 August 1977 – death of Francis Gary Powers — On 1st August 1977, Francis Gary Powers, one of the best-known American pilots of the Cold War era, died in a helicopter crash.

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